Dec 18, 2024 | Wednesday Quotes
It is not an accident that Christmas makes us think of times gone by, and especially of people gone by. Perhaps we experience this as a sort of cruel twist as we get older. We might wonder why it can’t be like it was before, when ‘everyone’ was there. There is much...
Dec 13, 2023 | Wednesday Quotes
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Dec 26, 2018 | True Friendship, Wednesday Quotes
“But a natural desire cannot be in vain.” Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae For those of us with some length of life experience, Christmas comes to be associated with suffering—whether our own or that of others we know. Christmas depression is proverbial, and it is...
Jan 10, 2018 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
“Origen contended that the naming of specific holy days was done only for the sake of the ‘unitiated’ and ‘beginners’ who were not yet capable of celebrating the ‘eternal festival’.” Josef Pieper, In Tune with the World: A Theory of Festivity I always find...
Dec 31, 2014 | Man of the Household, Wednesday Quotes
The Christmas season can be very challenging. Socially, emotionally, spiritually, physically. How we view this season is colored by our subjective experiences of it. For some the very thought of the season evinces pain, or at least melancholy. For others—often...
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